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NewsmaxIn jumping to appear before cameras and rallies to condemn this week’s Supreme Court ruling on President Trump’s travel ban, several elected Democrats empowered and legitimized an Islamist group whose leaders continue to engage in…

The Early Edition: July 2, 2018Just SecurityGaza health officials said that Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians and wounded 415 others on Friday. Protests began at the border fence between Israel and the Palestinian…

Aljazeera.comNearby, the face of the father, Amjad, was a frozen image of shock, despite telling Al Jazeera that his son was no different from the other Palestinian children who were targeted by Israeli forces. “The…

MondoweissGAZA CITY (Ma’an) 29 June — Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and hundreds of others were injured during the “Great March of Return” protest alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip on…

The Electronic Intifada (blog)The movement has continued to rack up wins amid a global wave of solidarity with Palestinians spurred by revulsion at Israel’s massacres of unarmed civilians taking part in the Great March of…

The Real News NetworkA recent article about this with the title “Why is the Palestinian Authority attacking Palestinian protests?” was just published in Al–Jazeera, and the author Yara Hawari is here to discuss it with…

Mintpress NewsDavid Ben-Gurion made his contempt for Palestinian human rights evident from his actions and therefore giving an example of his hatred for Palestinians would be nothing new. Instead it is crucial to understand that,…

MondoweissIsraeli news outlet Haaretz reported that, in January the US President Trump said that the U.S. may withhold future aid payments to the agency over what he called the Palestinians‘ unwillingness to talk peace with…

APN LiveDozens of Palestinians, including children and women, have been killed by Israeli forces during the “Right to Return” protests commenced in March this year. Palestinians hit Israeli forces with stones, explosive kites and balloons…

Aljazeera.comAhmed was born in the camp but his grandfather, Abdullah Shehadeh, was forced out of Palestine during the first Arab-Israeli War in 1948, following the creation of the then new state of Israel. Palestinians refer…

Aljazeera.comThe US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has been roundly condemned by rights groups and was described as “disappointing, if not really suprising” by Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for…

Gatestone InstituteOn May 14, as United States officials ceremoniously relocated the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza — many of them members of Hamas and…

Aljazeera.comToday, women, men, children and the elderly of Gaza are all forced to survive on a water supply that is 95 percent contaminated. … This is a deeply flawed economic model not created by Palestinians…

4 Palestinians Killed by Israeli ForcesFinancial TribuneMore than 600 people were wounded by Israeli forces, including photographer Mohammed Abed al-Baba, who was shot in the leg, Al Jazeera reported. Al-Baba, who has worked for AFP…

HaaretzHere, for example, is what Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ leader in the Strip, told Al Jazeera in Arabic: “We decided to turn the bodies of our women and children into a dam blocking Arab collapse.” This…

Aljazeera.comCounting on the Arab League to provide his group with weapons, al-Husseini selected hundreds of young Palestinians to attend military training in Syria, including Abu Nihad. “We left Jerusalem on a bus … While the…

Aljazeera.comAside from such “ex-Mossad” characters or Islamophobe hawks like Mike Pompeo, the issue of “regime change in Iran” goes way back, much before the Israeli-Saudi-instigated Trump violation of the Iran nuclear deal. Mark Dubowitz, CEO…

Aljazeera.comHe was initially scheduled for release in 1984. Now 74 years old, this forever prisoner has served longer in jail than any Palestinian prisoner in Israel including Nael Barghouthi, who was imprisoned for 37 years,…

Aljazeera.comSaturday’s incident comes after a 21-year-old Palestinian woman was killed by Israeli soldiers near the border fence in the Gaza Strip on Friday. Razan al-Najjar, a volunteer paramedic with the Gaza health ministry, was wearing…

Mintpress NewsWatch | Islamophobia Inc – Al Jazeera Investigations … The Al Jazeera film documented some of the ways the Islamophobia industry’s incitement and hate-filled ideology filters through to and inspires the perpetrators of such…

Aljazeera.comA vessel carrying Palestinian patients, students and activists attempted on Tuesday to break Israel’s imposed boundary off the coast of the Gaza Strip with the intention of reaching Limassol in southern Cyprus. Israel’s crippling land,…

Aljazeera.comIsraeli naval forces have intercepted a Palestinian vessel hours after it sailed off the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip. The boat, carrying patients, students and people wounded in recent mass protests, was transferred on…

Aljazeera.comThe group set sail on Tuesday morning from the besieged Gaza Strip, hoping to break Israel’s debilitating siege on the enclave that has trapped more than two million Palestinians since 2006. By mid-day, the ……

Aljazeera.com“This was done through video, stills, and audio recordings by anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian organisations such as B’Tselem, Machsom Watch Women, Breaking the Silence, and various BDS organisations.” Ilatov said that it was time to end…

Aljazeera.com“Here’s a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth three-and-twenty years,” the gravedigger tells Hamlet. It turns out the skull is Yorick’s, the king’s jester. It is here that Hamlet says his famous…

Aljazeera.comIf he wants to amputate you, he will,” Hasna told Al Jazeera from his home, sitting in a wheelchair surrounded by his seven children. … The woman was hysterical, trying to reach her wounded son…

Aljazeera.comSeventy years have passed since the Palestinians were expelled en masse from their homes to pave the way for the creation of the state of Israel. The recent … In the aftermath of the 2014…

Aljazeera.com… been a refugee her whole life. Her story is not unique, but her strength and resilience paint a striking picture of the collective story of Palestinian women in Lebanon – as evidenced by the…

Aljazeera.comLast year, Israel revoked the residency of 35 Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, including 17 women and four minors, according to Israeli rights group Hamoked. … Israel’s interior ministry did not reply to Al Jazeera’s…

Aljazeera.comThe court’s ruling gave Israel “a green light to its continued use of snipers and live fire against Palestinian protesters”, Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and Al Mezan Center…

The EconomistOn May 16th, two days after Israeli soldiers killed about 60 Palestinian protesters at the border fence, Gazans huddled around televisions to learn if the violence would push their scarred enclave into another war….

TheTower.orgDuring the recent violent riots held at Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, Hamas “wanted to see its own people killed on the border while we tried to avoid it,” Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi…

The Jerusalem PostIsrael’s blockade, shared by Egypt, is primarily a security measure in response to Hamas ongoing campaign to fulfill its pledge to destroy Israel and drive out the Jews it does not slaughter. By…

Aljazeera.comIn a subsequent report from Israel, the New York Times explained in detail how Israelis, by and large, could not care less how many Palestinians were slaughtered by their army. “A day after their soldiers…

Wall Street JournalHamas can lie—to the world, to Palestinians and to their own commanders and operatives—but I am proud that the IDF will never lie or use Israeli civilians or soldiers as pawns. Some of…

Aljazeera.comFemale demonstrators run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli forces during a protest where Palestinians demand the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip. Ibraheem…

StepFeedSince the end of March, at least 106 Palestinian demonstrators have been killed by Israeli forces, including 15 children, according to Al Jazeera. … “[Palestinians] are, in essence, caged in a toxic slum from birth…

Aljazeera.comOccupied East Jerusalem – More than 100,000 Palestinians, many of them from the occupied West Bank, have made their way to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem for the first Friday of Ramadan. Palestinians ……

Aljazeera.comAddressing a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said there was “little evidence” Israel made an effort to minimise casualties during mass border protests by Palestinians on Monday….

Haaretz… in the Gaza Strip and the organization’s current strongman, gave a rare interview Wednesday to the Al Jazeera network. Sinwar, who spent more than 20 years in Israeli prisons for murdering Palestinians who cooperated…

Middle East Media Research InstituteSpeaking on Al–Jazeera on May 13, Al-Zahhar, former foreign minister in the Hamas government, said that the option of armed struggle has not diminished. “On the contrary … In footage from…

Aljazeera.comTwo, we want the genocidal siege imposed on Gaza by apartheid Israel to be lifted. Three, we … The National Committee of the March has representatives from all Palestinian political organisations, including Fatah, the Popular…

Daily MaverickAfter the 1967 war, Israel controlled 100% of Palestine as well as the Egyptian Sinai, Syrian parts of the Golan Heights and the entire area of the Jordanian-controlled West Bank. …. Al–Jazeera’s split-screen coverage…

Aljazeera.comTuesday’s protests coincided with the killing of more than 60 Palestinians on Monday by Israel’s security forces as they gathered near the Israel Gaza border. Palestinians in the enclave had been … The mood was…

Aljazeera.comLaila Anwar al-Ghandour, an eight-month-old baby girl, died of tear-gas inhalation at dawn, Gaza’s Ministry of Health says, highlighting international outrage over the killings by Israeli soldiers of 60 Palestinians who joined in a massive…

Aljazeera.comIndeed, Israeli soldiers killed many Palestinians, who ventured close to the border fence in a desperate attempt to redeem the fruit of the land that once belonged to them. In fact, for Mariyam and Zarefah,…

Reading EagleMeanwhile, Israel’s ambassador is calling on the council to condemn Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules the coastal Gaza Strip and led the protests. …. Kuwait is seeking an emergency U.N. Security Council…

Tampabay.comAustralia’s prime minister has blamed the militant group Hamas for the deaths of more than 50 Palestinians under Israeli fire along the Israel-Gaza border. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Melbourne Radio 3AW: “Hamas’ conduct is…

Aljazeera.comDozens of Palestinians were killed in Gaza and more than 2,000 wounded as the Israeli army fired live ammunition and tear gas at protesters assembled along the fence with Israel on Monday. It was the…

Aljazeera.com (blog)On his first visit to Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Showkat Shafi saw how daily life is completely segregated for Israelis and Palestinians. and more …read more Source:: Middle East News Al Jazeera Israel, Israeli, Palestine,…

MondoweissThe fire was quickly extinguished and the three men were taken into police custody for questioning … Karmi Buzaglo recently mocked the use of incendiary kites by protesting Palestinians. “The best minds of IMI [Systems,…

Aljazeera.comThe rallies, launched on March 30, are part of the Great March of Return grassroots movement, which will culminate on May 15 to mark what Palestinians refer to as “the Nakba” or “catastrophe”. On that…

BroadlyOn December 15 of 2017, a video of a Palestinian teenager slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers in front of her home went viral. Described as the “slap that was heard around the world,” the…

Aljazeera.comSeventy years ago, Tikva Honig-Parnass terminated her university classes, ignoring her parents’ advice, and rushed off to join the Palmach, the elite Jewish military force established in the 1940s to help create a Jewish state…

Aljazeera.comPalestinian activists had previously shared on social media a letter, which Al Jazeera could not independently verify, written by Palestinian Ambassador to Malaysia Anwar al-Agha to Abbas. The letter detailed the alleged interactions of Ahmad…

Aljazeera.comIn 2007, Al Jazeera entered Gaza to talk to the grandchildren of Fatima al-Najar, who had achieved a strange kind of fame as the oldest female Palestinian suicide bomber. Bewildered and grieving for their grandmother,…